“You’re so good with her,” he said with a shake of his head. “I would never have thought to do something like that.”

She shrugged a shoulder, “I have an advantage over you.”

He gritted his teeth. “Yeah five years of getting to know her,” he said and she could hear the anger and regret in his voice.

“I was thinking more of the four years of Early Childhood studies that I did,” she said to try to lighten his dark mood.

He quirked a crooked smile. ...